This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open This is an old article about SCO Unix and is only left here for historical purposes. There is lots of Linux, Mac OS X and general Unix info elsewhere on this site: Search this site is the best way to find anything.
From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com> Subject: Re: busying out a pseudo tty Date: 2 Oct 2003 17:31:04 -0400 References: <c5a0626d.0310021152.1e7ec391@posting.google.com> PW Herman wrote: > Hi, I've got a weird problem with an old un-supported dentist program > that runs on Openserver 5.0.4. For some reason, it gives error > messages in certain menus if the user logs in on ttyp2, ttyp3, ttyp4 > or ttyp5. Is there any way to make these 4 pseudo ttys appear to be > busy so nobody ever connects on them??? If you open the master sides (/dev/ptyp2 etc.), they will be busied out. You can do that with a very simple shell script that you could e.g. run as an rc script. For example, #!/bin/sh # Busy out ports ttyp2, 3, 4, 5 because "un-supported dentist program" # is allergic to them... sleep 1000000000 < /dev/ptyp2 & sleep 1000000000 < /dev/ptyp3 & sleep 1000000000 < /dev/ptyp4 & sleep 1000000000 < /dev/ptyp5 & Save as /etc/rc2.d/S99pty-hold or something like that. You can save a few processes if you wish (but this gets messy if you want to busy out dozens of ports): cd /dev sleep 1000000000 2<ptyp2 3<ptyp3 4<ptyp4 5<ptyp5 & # Note that shell syntax allows redirecting fd's 0-9, no higher: 10< # does not work. >Bela<
Got something to add? Send me email.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use sed." Now they have two problems. (Jamie Zawinski)
Printer Friendly Version
Have you tried Searching this site?
This is a Unix/Linux resource website. It contains technical articles about Unix, Linux and general computing related subjects, opinion, news, help files, how-to's, tutorials and more.
Contact us
Printer Friendly Version